This decision was later overturned by the Maryland Court of Appeals on March 8, 2019, and Syeds conviction was reinstated. ![]() Syeds first trial ended in a mistrial, but after a six-week second trial, Syed was found guilty of Lees murder on February 25, 2000, and was given a life sentence. ![]() 12 A memorial service for Lee was held on March 11 at Woodlawn High School. Syed was arrested on February 28 at 6 a.m. On February 12, an anonymous source contacted authorities and suggested that Adnan Masud Syed, Lees ex-boyfriend, might be a suspect. The case was immediately treated as a homicide. Her corpse was discovered on February 9 in Leakin Park and identified two days later. Maybe in podcast form it is, and trying to do it as a documentary story is really, really hard.īut trying to do it as a serial, this is as old as Dickens. She also has noted, this is not an original idea. Serial won a Peabody Award in April 2015 for its innovative telling of a long-form nonfiction story.Īs of September 2018, episodes of seasons one and two have been downloaded over 340 million times, establishing an ongoing podcast world record. ![]() Serial ranked number one on iTunes even before its debut and remained there for several weeks. Season three, which debuted in September 2018, explores cases within the Justice Center Complex in the Cleveland area.
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